Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-03-13

set large plaques OF sCaTIetJapan pOppieS.
BOnnets for spring are also of lace in
all COIors. The lace is light or dark, and
the designs are worked over with silk in
bright C0lors. The lace or embroidery
matches the costume. The genre" for
these bOnnets, which are without strings,
is that they have neither flowers, plumes
nor ribbons, but are simply trimmed with
the lace OF which they are made. The
latter is in all widths, and is arranged in
loops in front of the head. These lace
bonnets are in pointed capote shape.
SPRING SILKS.
India silks and French fOulards are
largely imported for house dresses in the
spring and for general wear in summer.
The old designs of flowers, palms, aud
Persian srabesqueS are AGAIN shown, but
the new fancy is for plaids, bars and
stripes in these silks very similar in col
Oring to those of cotton or wool goods.
The violet blue silks will have Irregular
bars of pink and green, the darkest blue
grounds will be crossed with white or
with red, and brown Will alternate with
eCru as ground or as figures. The inch
square plaids are thought handsomest in
light ColOrs, while the dark grounds look
well IN rather large or extremely fine,
small crossings of contrasting bars. TIL
striped designs are most varied of all,
one of the best new patterns be-
ing inch wide stripes of very fine
white speCkS, with blue, brown, green,
gray or dul red stripes of the same
width separating them. The hair stripes
of lsstyear are repeated, but have become
mOnOtQnOus, as they are in all kinds of
fabrics. FlOWered stripes are very effeC-
tive in leaf or lily. Of-the-valley patterns,
or in slender vines of gay small buds
partly blown. Greek squares and the
ZigZag of chuddsh stripes are also shown.
a great deal of French foulard is in the
market, but this has worn so badly that
it has lost favor, and merchants are too
much given to calling it India silk because
the latter is more durable. White India
silk, with all over patterns of graceful
lines in blue, brown or scarlet, will make
pretty summer dresses, and there are
many Vatican aud pOmp8dOur designs of
roses and pinks in pale and charm
ing colors. The surans, with large
wide diagonal twills, are shown in all
solid colors and IN many plaids, some of
the prettieSt being dark blue crossed with
pink and lighter blue, Suede with bars of
rose and green, and green grounds barred
with pink. These are to be made up in
entire dresses-nOt in cOmbination-With
velvet collar, vest and cuffs, and seal
lo0ed dTapery on lower skirts bordered
with velvet, or else folded in exceedingly
vide plaits with velvet inlsid between
Hsrper's Bazaar.
HOUSE DRESS.
A simple pretty fashion for the house
toilette is dress of soft wool fabric,
the skirt full, the dr9peries irregular,
many pleat the front breadth in at. the
waist, leaving the sides Of it to hang
straight or caught up Slightly on the left,
the back drapery very full and pIested on
the sides or cut shorter in the middle and
coming in points TO meet the required
length of the front. The Corsage has
loose jacket fronts which spread open
widely aud show 8 saggtng vest of rep
silk of the same shade as the dress ma
terIal. The back is 3 short pOstilljoD,
and the collar, cuffs and the straps which
button the jacket fronts at the top are of
silk The skirt is finished at the bottom
with narrow pleating.
FRINGED TRIMMING.
Among the lengthy list OF beautiful all
wool fabrics is pretty white chuddah-
cloth, with fine arete or clearinghouse
weave, and stylish way to trim dresses
of this material is to border the panels,
tunic and portions of the bodice with
pleated rucbings of fringed silk. Another
garniture, also a revival, which will be